Undergarment for women



Nov. 18, 1930. NELSON 1,781,929

UNDERGARMENT on WOMEN Filed April 20:? 1927 llllllh r. w, o n n ,r ve w.M p uJ Wm M V "Patented Nov. 18, 1936 UNITED STATES I V V x MARY n.NnI'LsoN. or uNnEBGAnMEN'r og-j g e 1 A pplication filed April 20,

My invention relates to undergarments for women particularly that typeof undergar ment known as a slip. It is the object of my invention toprovide such an undergarment' "wht ch shall be exceedingly simple inconstruction, can be cut with a large degree of economy from the averagewidth of material, will fit the wearer in such wise as to hang properly,be comfortable in use and yet which provides expansibility of the lowerpart so as to give perfect freedom of move- 'ment when the garment isworn. It is essential for a slip to be worn with the dress of theprevailing type to hang, straight envelopmg theform of the wearer in asheath-like In attaining the desired results I fabricate thegarment witha single front member running the full length of the garment, to

. which are connected along the lower part of the sides of the frontsymmetrically-disposed back portionsof equal size, the upper partsoverlapping one another at the waistline and being there securedtogether and to the upper part of the back, thus producing a skirtportion adapted to expand at its bottom and 30. providing a double foldof material at the back advantageously worn under thin fabric outergarments.

' The upper part of the garment may be provided with side openingspermitting the same to be expanded for ease in slipping on over theshoulders of the wearer.

The slip isalso provided with loop fastener devices secured at the uppermargin of the garment at the base of the shoulder straps,

which loops are adapted to be fastened around the shoulder straps ofother garments being worn, holding all of them positioned together. l

' The full objects and advantages of my in- 4 vention are fullydescribed in detail hereinafter and the novel features thereof areparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, which illustrate a practical embodiment of myinvention,-

Fig. 1 shows the garment as worn, in posi- 1927. serial No. 185,167.

'lo opsj exposed .Fig; 2;shows the position it ofthe garment as worn,when oneiof the limbs j 1 of the wearer is raised. Fig'..3i-llustratesthe .55,

pattern of complete garment ,ready to be unitediby sewing'or otherwise.Fig. 4 isga detail view of the shoulder-"loop straps- Fig. 5 illustratestheeconomic-al method ofcut vting the garment from material as it;ordina ri ly comes from the loom- A s-illustrated, vthe'front me garmentcomprises a single piece which when 7 fabric'ated will extend from thestrap sup-V baclrof the" garment. In, practice, as'illu s v trated inFig. 5, these pieces will be cut from thegoods integral with; thecentral front portion 10. They may,.howe ver, be separately out from thegoods and united withjthe memher 10fas indicated in dotted lines at 13in i Fig. An upper back member 14 provided which sewed along its'longerQloweredge 15 tothe overlapped upper edges 16,17 of the bottomback members 11,412. The edge 15 is slightly-longer than either, edget16,or '17, which are not completely overlapped but only suflicie'ntly tomake the'le'ngthof their combined edge equal to the edge 15.v The edges'18,

19 of the upper back me mber are then sewed to theied'ges20, 21ofthe'upper front member,

which edges'are madeof the same length by.

means of darts 22, 23 in the upper front portion of member 10.' Asclearly shown in ,Fig.

3, the edges 20 and 21 of the front converge upwardly from a point aboutat the hip line of the garment and the edges 18 and 19 of the backmember 141 likewise converge upwardly. j 1

This upper back member is, however,1smaller than the upper portion ofthe front member having the converging lines. Also, the line i of unionbetween the edges 15 and 16, 17 will be at a point approximately at thehip line of the garment. "If desired the' seams along edges 18, 20 and19, 21 may be left open a desired distance as'indicated at 2 1 tobesecured in final position by means of snaps or other fasteners 25.Shoulder straps 26, 27 are secured tothe uppermargins of the'front andso mber 10.: of the i back portions as indicated at 28 and 29,respectively. At the point of securing the shoulder strapsto the uppermargin of the garment loops 30 are provided, sewed or "otherwisepermanently secured at one end and adapted to be removably secured atthe other-end by means of snapsjor other fasteners 31.--By thisineans,"as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the straps 32 of'otherund'ergarments may be secured to the slip, thus holding c.

all the straps. together, preventing the tendency to separate andkeeping the upperedges of all of the undergarments as worn similarlypositioned.

The. advantages of theslip undergarment above described will be,apparent from the foregoing description. There is exceeding 7simplicity: In practice, but two pieces are employed for theentire'garment, aside from shoulder straps, and these are v cutat aminimum expe'nseand with practically no waste at all, as is shown inFig. 5. The garment hangs unusually well. "It has the sheath form sodesirable for'present modes of dress, and' yet it gives perfect freedomof action of the limbs andprovides a double,straight-hanging,'non-wrinkling fabric at the back of the garment. v

' Iclaim:

An undergarment slip for women comprising a single front piece hayingupwardlyconverging upper side edges and substantial- 1y parallel lowerside edges, an upper back piece narrower in width than the upper por-.

tion of the front piece with correspondingly converging side edges sewedto the upperside edges of the front piece and extending to a pointsubstantially atythe hip line of the wearer,[and a pair of lower backpieces each having an edge connected with a lower side edge of thefrontjpiece and being sewed along.

their parallel upper edges in overlapping relation to the lower edge ofthe upper back plece. i

In'testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature. v MARY D. NEILSON.

